Im 13 days post op and i tried starting my vitamins today and calcium and i got so sick, is there any secret to keeping them down ? I took them first thing in the morning on an empty stomach should i take with food ? Or at a different time of day ? These are from the surgeons office and they said we have to take vitamins and from today i can see this is going to be a challenge. These are the melt in your mouth kind. I dont know how this is going to work out :'(

Following. I'm 6 weeks out and still have trouble. I did get clearance for non chewable. Hope it helps!

Try not taking them on an empty stomach, if I do that it makes me deathly ill.

I was told to take with meals and to split them up into different doses. So I take a Multivitamin and my calcium after lunch and a multivitamin and Iron and Biotin at dinner (iron and calcium needs to be 2 hours apart). Depending on how full I let myself get (too much sometimes), I do have to wait until my 30 minutes of waiting for liquid is up after eating to get the Vitamins, but my stomach is completely empty by then. My B12 is a nasal spray and only has to be taken once a week. Don't take your vitamins just before your meal. (I tried that and I got way too full too quick and couldn't get in enough nutrition.)

Hope that helps!

You are not supposed to take your calcium with your multi-vitamin as the calcium won't absorb.

I have to wait until after Breakfast to take mine or they do bother me. Try taking them on a full stomach.

Thank you for the suggestions ill try them

@hockeyfan7 - Curious if you are saying the calcium won't absorb with multivitamin because it is too much calcium or other reason? My multi does not contain calcium.

The papers my surgeon gave me say to take the multi with the calcium and I also take Vitamin D with them, I do have to take them with food or they make me very nauseous. I was told to take the b12 and the Iron/C separately ( 2 hours for Iron after any supplement) I have not heard to take calcium separate.

I was instructed to wait 2 hours from having my mulitvitamin and my first Calcium, then 4 hours for the next Calcium.

So, Multivitamin -> wait 2 hours -> Calcium - > wait 4 hours -> Calcium

Good Luck!

Apparently there are many different instructions. So confused.

I put my multivitamin in my protein shake and blend it up

Ah… yes. The whole sick stomach from vitamins thing. I’ve been there and it’s what lead me to Vita4Life. I struggled so much fresh post op with vitamins and I was terrified I was going to never be able to keep vitamins down. My last option was to try them. What I wound up doing was opening the capsules and mixing them in to things like my protein shakes or my yogurt. I even put the contents in to a little of my dinner. Let me tell you, they saved me. I just swallow them whole now, but at the time, I couldn’t have done anything but a powder from capsules and I’m positive of it. You should try it. I’m sorry, I remember what it feels like and it’s awful. And scary.

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I could not take my Vitamins for about a month even with protonix on board, you are not going to be vit deficient in one month. I was fine. I started taking the meltables and chewables with a little bite of food and it made all the difference about week 5. The only Vitamin you need to be concerned with waiting is the Iron. Two hours before or after any other supplement. It's ok to take your multi with your Calcium. I have heard so many different things on here and got completely confused so I did a lot of research and talked to my NUT again and I actually take my multi, my calcium, my b12 and my D3 at the same time.

I was instructed to wait 2 hours from having my mulitvitamin and my first Calcium, then 4 hours for the next Calcium.

So, Multivitamin -> wait 2 hours -> Calcium - > wait 4 hours -> Calcium

Good Luck!

This is what I was told on Calcium too. Also I always take Vitamins with food or Protein shake so I don't feel sick.

Instructions will vary based on which vitamins you are getting your iron from. Iron can interfere with your body's ability to absorb calcium. So those need to be taken separately, typically 1+ more apart.